Useful Links

We have selected the following links to web-based resources because they have been useful to us in our practice. We think you will find helpful information here too. We have categorised the links by type and subject area. Please click on the Bookmarks above to go to the relevant category on this page.

Every effort is made to keep the links updated on a regular basis. If, however, you discover a broken link or new resource you would like us to add, please contact us with your suggestions or comments.

Professional Practice

• No Bully — an anti-bullying programme taught by NZ Police education officers, in partnership with teachers, to students in Years 0-13.

Social Work Associations

• Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers Inc (ANZASW) — the NZ professional association of social workers; includes information on the association, a national directory, policies and code of ethics, and links to others associations and training providers.
• Australian Association of Social Workers — contains extensive links to many sites and social work courses in Australia as well as information about the AASW; also has a section on the assessment of overseas qualifications.
• British Association of Social Workers — the professional association of social workers in the UK; includes information about the BASW, job vacancies, their Code of Ethics, a list of publications, the text of press releases, and policy responses of the BASW Parliamentary Liaison.
• National Association for Social Workers (USA) — the professional association of American social workers; includes a catalogue of publications, the NASW Code of Ethics, accreditation information and links to job resources; also a useful tool for keeping up to date with social issues of current concern in the United States.
• Canadian Association of Social Workers — information about social work training and practice in Canada; also contains papers from the joint IFSW and IASSW conference held in Montreal in July 2000.
• International Federation of Social Workers — the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) is a global organisation striving for social justice, human rights and social development through the development of social work, best practices and international cooperation between social workers and their professional organisations; included are links to publications of the IFSW such as the Ethics of Social Work: Standards and Principles and to associations in most of the 76 member countries.
• New Zealand Association of Counsellors — contains information pertaining to counselling in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• New Zealand Psychological Society — New Zealand’s premier professional body for psychologists.

Publications and Periodicals

• Critical Social Work — an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to social justice (full text).
• Social Work Now — the professional practice journal of Child, Youth and Family, published in April, August, December. Its focus is on articles about social work practice and theory as they relate to children, young people, families and whanau.
• Social Service Review — electronic edition of the journal published by the University of Chicago.
• British Journal of Social Work — the journal published by the British Association of Social Workers.
• European Journal of Social Work — Contents and abstracts only.
• Publications from the National Association of Social Workers (US) — Links to the contents of the periodicals Social Work, Health & Social Work, Children & Schools, Social Work Research and Social Work Abstracts.

Practice Areas

• Social Work and Social Services Websites — compiled by GWB School of Social Work at Washington University in St Louis.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse — a comprehensive, searchable database of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents for health professionals.
• World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers — designed to facilitate access to professionally relevant information on the WWW by providing over 60,000 links; sponsored by the Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at NYU and the Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center and Health System.
• Social Work Search — search engine dedicated to social work related topics; also contains a discussion board and a chat room.

Relevant NZ Sites

• Mental Health Commission
• Child Youth and Family
• Mental Health Foundation
• Department of Corrections
• Stopping Violence Services
• Families Commission
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Women's Affairs
• Strengthening Families
• Children's Issues Centre, University of Otago
• Crime and Justice Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
• Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Auckland
• Injury Prevention Research Unit, University of Otago
• Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families, Victoria University of Wellington
• Alcohol Advisory Council of NZ (ALAC)
• Auckland Sexual Abuse Help
• National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges Inc.
• Preventing Violence in the Home
• Rape Prevention Education
• Relationship Services
• Victim Support

General Search Engines

• Google
• Ask.com
• Vivisimo
• Dogpile
• Reference Desk

NZ Search Engines

• Yahoo
• NZ Explorer
• Search NZ
• Access NZ
• NZ Government — search web pages in the govt.nz domain.
• Everybody — a NZ consumer health information resource.
• Te Puna Web Directory — a directory to New Zealand & Pacific Island web sites maintained by the National Library of NZ.